It’s hard to believe, but next year will mark our tenth anniversary! No time to pat ourselves on the back, though. We have plenty of projects to do, including books in the works by Michael Heller, Diane di Prima, Robert Lax, Alan Halsey, Rane Arroyo, David Jaffin, Skip Fox, Robin Blaser, Don Wellman, Eileen Tabios (among others) and e-books by Maurice Scully, Dyane Stetco and more. We have a new on-line maga (eKleksographia) taking shape on the anvils of Los, and not a few other projects on the burners. We want to branch out into anthologies and publishing experimental plays and performance texts as paper books and as e-chapbooks, and the Witness continues to add that extra bit of information to Maryland history that sorely needs to be there. We’ve connected with Bookmobile to begin print on demand publishing and on and on and on. Ahadada Books is an exercise in freedom–we publish the work that we like and that suits us. We answer to no one but ourselves.

When 2009 rolls around it may be time for a cup of coffee in celebration with friends, but I can assure you that soon after that it will be back to work.

And oh yes–the long-promised publication of Yoko Danno’s Kojiki is almost a fact!